A memorial stone

At San Giovanni Lupatoto port, on the banks of Adige river, on May 20th, was unveiled a memorial stone in memory of Roberto Adami, the young man stabbed in a pub of the town.
The work of art, on commission of the commune, was realized by Luigi Lineri with river pebbles. The “cippo” tells, with its four faces, in different colours and shapes the tragic vicissitude of the man who was murdered (dark pebbles, petrified tears) in a town which keeps negative feelings near elements of civilization. Another page full of red stones suggests the body of a woman and opens to serenity and hope.
In the end a homage to the river: the part with a tree holding a warning (petrified by pollution?) and a hope (transcendent cosmical symbol). At the top of the “cippo” an oval pebble that, as Lineri underlines, “refers to the mystery of Resurrection”.
Symbolic place, place of life, San Giovanni port turns therefore also into a place of memory. An example of the way public spaces can be used and destined, along the river, getting together nature, culture and art.